Heavy-ion beam dynamics in the Rare Isotope Accelerator Facility

Recently the possibility of simultaneously accelerating particles with a range of charge-to-mass ratios (-20%) to the same energy was proposed and demonstrated for a superconducting (SC) linac. This development has two immediate applications: 1) acceleration of heavy ions that are limited by ion-source intensities in a high-power medium energy linac such as the driver linac for the proposed Rare-Isotope Accelerator (RIA) Facility and 2) substantial intensity enhancement of secondary radioactive beams in post-accelerators.